July 10
Joel Bennett: PoshConsole - a WPF based PowerShell console
I wrote a quick prototype for a console in WPF on the plane ride back from PDC 2003...so I am excited to see people innovating in the console space...especially if WPF helps them do that.
Joel Bennett has created PoshConsole as a CodePlex project. He explains it in PoshConsole - a Smart, Fashionable PowerShell Console
For those of you who don't know about Windows PowerShell - see 1) the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter; 2) the Windows PowerShell team blog. I assume PowerShell is required to be installed...Download Windows PowerShell 1.0
My quick take:
- I like the start of the features that are enabled.
- I like that he is building a reusable ConsoleTextBox...I've started that kind of thing once before...
- QuakeMode is cool. You type in a few settings and then you press Win-` to show/hide the console. Nice transparency/animation...
- Typing perf needs work, I'll point out this app to my WPF team members who own textbox...perhaps they have recommendations on better ways to approach what Joel is doing here...Perhaps there are WPF issues this will help uncover...
Features I'd like to see:
- I'd love to see it installable via ClickOnce
- I'd like to see each file or path be a live object that is drag/droppable! A "windows explorer"/cmd prompt hybrid...
[via Doug Finke]
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